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Accra Shepp

Accra Shepp Biography

1962

Born in New York, NY

Lives and works in Queens, NY

Accra Shepp Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022

Folio Pictum, Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2021

Folium Pictum, Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2019

CockSure, Video installation at Spaces, Cleveland, OH

2018

Windbook – Luxembourg, Bibliothèque Nationale de Luxembourg, Luxembourg

2017

Backroom, Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, NY

2016

Unseen, Unkown, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY

2014

Photographs by Accra Shepp, The Queens Museum, Queens, NY

2013

Flushing Creek into Bowery, Flushing Town Hall, NY

2008

The Tobacco Project, Gallery 138, New York, NY

2006

In the Loop, Estudiotres, Chicago, IL

2004

In the Loop, City Gallery, Chicago, IL

2003

First Totems, Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL

Leaf Work, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

1999

Half Light, Galeri padi, Bandung, West Java, Indonesia

The Making of Half Light, Galeri Soermardja, Bandung, West Java, Indonesia

1997

Tunnel Visions, Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York, NY

1996

Grand Central Station: SubTerrain, Drew University, Madison, NJ

1995

Grand Central Station: SubTerrain, Jamaica Arts Center, New York, NY

1993

Accra Shepp, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

Accra Shepp, The Charles Russell Gallery, Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, MA

1992

Accra Shepp, Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY

1990

Accra Shepp, Midtown Y, New York, NY

1989

Alternate Mappings, New York University, New York, NY

Accra Shepp Selected Group Exhibitions

2021

There Is a Woman In Every Color: Black Women In Art (online exhibition),
Bowdoin Art Museum, Brunswick ME

2020

Say It Loud! (a virtual exhibition), Christies

2019

Structures of Identity: Photography from the Walther Collection
Fundació Foto Colectania: Barcelona, Spain

2018

Structures of Identity: Photography from the Walther Collection
Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Monterrey, Mexico
FOAM Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Experimental Approaches, Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL

2015

The Order of Things, Photography from the Walther Collection
The Walther Collection, Ulm, Germany
Museet Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden

2014

Typology, Taxonomy, Seriality: Photography from the Walther Collection
Les Rencontres d’Arles, France
Slaves of Mimesis: Nine Years on 23rd St, Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, NY

2013

Imago Mundi, 55th Biennale, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy
Rising Waters: Photographs of Hurricane Sandy, Museum of City of NY, NY
Flushing Creek into Bowery Bay, Flushing Town Hall, NY
Street Shots/NYC, Museum of the City of New York at Seaport, NY

2012

Human Cities 2012, Royal Library of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
Occupy Wall Street, Museum of the City of New York at Seaport, NY

2011

Occupy Wall Street, Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, NY
Art of Latino Floodways, United Community Center Milwaukee, WI

2009

Harlem Postcards, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

2008

History of Photography Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

2007

Photography Books, Nelson Hancock Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
In the Still, Dell Pryor Gallery, Detroit, IL

2006

Saturday Night Sunday Morning, Chattanooga African American Museum, TN
Artificial Africa, Gigantic Artspace, New York, NY

2005

Echoes of Complicity, LIPA, Chicago, IL
Saturday Night Sunday Morning, African American Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Saturday Night Sunday Morning, City Gallery East, Atlanta, GA

2004

About Face, Art Institute of Chicago, IL
In the Loop, City Gallery at Water Tower Place, Chicago, IL

2002

The Art Council Awards Show, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL

2001

In/Site/Out: Inquiries into Social Space, Apex Art, New York, NY
Committed to the Image, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Parade of Flags: MLK Jr. Day, Four New York City Schools, New York, NY

2000

Environmentally Concerned: Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, NY
Bronx River art Center and Gallery, Bronx, NY
Precedence: Emmet Gowin and his Students, Fosdick Nelson Gallery, Alfred, NY
Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers, 1840 to Present
Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History, Washington, DC

1998

Paper + Works on Dieu Donne Paper, Dieu Donne Paper Mill, New York NY
Black Art Fair, New York, NY
Foto Expresion, La Biblioteca Publica Gabriel Turbay, Bucaramanga, Colombia

1997

Tunnel Visions, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, NY
Sensorial Impressions, Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego, CA
Presenze, Artisti Stranieri Oggi in Italia, Padiglione Neri, Perugia, Italy
Foto Expresion, Centro Colombo – Americano, Bogota, Colombia

1994

Contemporary Photographs from the Museum Collection, The Art Museum Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

1993

On View 1993, Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

1992

Untitled, Houk Friedman, New York, NY

1991

New York Architects: In Search of the Urban Ideal, Jamaica Arts Center, New York, NY
Fragments, Art in General, New York, NY
Marginal Majority, Aaron Davis Hall, City University of NY, New York, NY

1990

Public Mirror: Artists Against Racial Prejudice, The Clocktower, New York, NY

1989

Rooms With A View, Ledel Gallery New York, NY

1988

Crysallis, Association of Artists, Mt. Vernon, NY

Accra Shepp Public Collections

The Museum of Modern Art, New York NY
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY
The Art Institute of Chicago
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston TX
The Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
The New York Public Library, New York, NY
The Art Museums, Harvard University, Boston, MA
The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
The Spencer Museum, Kansas University, Lawrence, KS
The Art Museum, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
Wellesley College*, Wellesley, MA
The Gund Foundation, New York, NY
The Walther Collection, New York, NY
The Bohen Foundation*, New York, NY
Washington State Art in Public Places, Olympia, WA

 

 

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